#8 Report: Building Information

2.1 Building Information

*The table was already mentioned in report preparation

2.2  Building Background

City Stadium of Penang, the oldest stadium was originally known as Penang Island National Stadium starting from 1^st October 1945 until 8^th August 2003 and was officially built on 1^st June 1948 by the British government with the architect in action which is British Commonwealth & Government.

On 1^st May 1950, British government decided to expand the National Stadium (now: City Stadium) and then being renovated 3 years later on 1^st July 1953. Nether less, due to congestion within George Town, the stadium could not be further expanded from its present size where previously the main entrance of the stadium occupied a larger area. The National Stadium then was officially inaugurated on 1^st September 1956 and ready to perform.

Nowadays, it mainly use for the football matches with the home ground of Penang state football team, which is Football Association of Penang (Penang FA). The stadium can accommodate around 25,000 spectators during a time. It also can be rent and used for athletic meets, soccer matches, field events, stage shows and other ceremonies with the affordable rate charges by the Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang (MBPP).

2.3  Building Condition

Building condition of a stadium can be divided into three categories, which are building structure, building services and field. Building structure category is consist of building structures, exterior and foundation, interior and finishes, enclosed walkways and corridors, and, site improvements around a building.  While, building services category is include fire detection and other safety system, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, building data and communication facilities, plumbing and sewerage, elevators, access control and surveillance systems, electrical power systems which including emergency power generation facilities. Next, for field category, expertise is required to assess the field condition. Thus, we does not inspect in field condition.

Building condition assessment is a technical inspection by a competent assessor to evaluate the physical state of building elements and services and to assess the maintenance needs of the facility. The process may include the following: (a) visual inspections and assessment of straightforward building elements, (b) review of on-site building asset management plans to identify building information relevant to the conduct of condition assessments,  (c) gathering information from maintenance records and communicating with maintenance personnel and building users to understand the complexity of the facilities to be assessed and any maintenance issues, (d) capture of visual images on electronic or other media, (e) physical measurements of a building, building elements and site elements, (f) inspections by closed circuit television taking of non-destructive samples for testing, (g) review of disaster recovery plans, (h) flood lines to determine the likely effect of a natural disaster on the building and its services, (i) infrared scanning for thermal stress, (j) recordings of sound level, vibration and other operating parameters, (k) taking location coordinates using a satellite-based global positioning system, (l) collection or confirmation of asset data, (m) undertaking load measurements of electrical and other services, (n) indoor air quality measurements, (o) determining actions to mitigate any immediate risk until remedial works or other actions can be taken to address problems.

Based on our observation, the Penang City Stadium has a good condition because the maintenance management are performing their responsible in their work. The maintenance officer of this building also informed us that they will ensure the maintenance will be done regularly. The condition of this building has been cared by each department on maintenance.